Control: tags -1 patch Hi,
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:40:40AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > an upgrade test with piuparts revealed that your package installs files > over existing symlinks and possibly overwrites files owned by other > packages. This usually means an old version of the package shipped a > symlink but that was later replaced by a real (and non-empty) > directory. This kind of overwriting another package's files cannot be > detected by dpkg. > > This was observed on the following upgrade paths on i386: > > lenny -> squeeze -> wheezy -> jessie -> stretch This issue, introduced during the lenny -> squeeze upgrade, can be fixed by using symlink_to_dir. The attached patch should fix it. Cheers, Ivo
commit 603827e1eb88611a20fe36925fc49b6db3f960e5 Author: Ivo De Decker <[email protected]> Date: Sun Apr 30 17:24:33 2017 +0200 Add python-cairo-dbg.maintscript diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 80003e6..3f68c9a 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +pycairo (1.8.8-2.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Add python-cairo-dbg.maintscript to cleanup symlink left over from version + 1.4.12-1.2 (lenny). (Closes: #861305) + + -- Ivo De Decker <[email protected]> Sun, 30 Apr 2017 17:22:42 +0200 + pycairo (1.8.8-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium * Non-maintainer upload. diff --git a/debian/python-cairo-dbg.maintscript b/debian/python-cairo-dbg.maintscript new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b01e49e --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/python-cairo-dbg.maintscript @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +symlink_to_dir /usr/share/doc/python-cairo-dbg /usr/share/doc/python-cairo 1.8.8-2.2~
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